@MissyQ I have several Airbnb properties. At present I do not provide any sort of ability for my guests to do anything interactive with the house. I want to put a touch panel in the properties to allow them to override the default heating schedule to something that works better for them instead of having to have them message me to modify the heating schedule (which I do remotely). The only other troubleshooting I currently do remotely is if the locks don’t properly program.
I’m the writer and maintainer of Rental Control which sits on top of Keymaster. I know from the stats that I’ve got 132 installations that are reporting back stats. Who knows how many don’t have stat reporting turned on. So, not exactly a significant number of folks using HA in this way but I’m sure there’s a lot more than are using my integration!
As I said, my desire is to put a touch panel at the properties. It would allow me to allow my guests to potentially change other parts of the smart automations I currently have in place as well without them destroying the system or getting into parts of the system that I absolutely do not want them to be part of (like my schedule for the sprinkler system) or the outside lights management, or the locks themselves!
I can’t trust putting a panel in at the properties without them better locked down. I’m doing a lot of careful work on designing the dashboards now and having to do a lot of browser_mod, card_mod, kiosk mode and using Fully Kiosk just to get it to a point where I have a hope that someone won’t find a way to escape the dashboard jail that I’m crafting. Putting access around everything would make this significantly easier for me!
I also want to make a panel available in my own home, but I have a very curious 5 (nearly 6) year old and I don’t want him messing with any of this stuff either. Especially since I have my spare bedrooms rented out via Airbnb as well, so I have a lot of locks (7 counting my office door) hooked up to my home HA instance, the thermostat and the sprinkler system.
Currently his only interaction with the HA system is via Google Home devices that only have some of the lights exposed.